SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2013 DIGITAL
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Gardner B TEACHING GOALS AND STRATEGIES FOR MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN JEWISH HISTORY AT THE UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL Moderator: Elisheva Carlebach (Columbia University) Discussants: Francesca Bregoli (Queens College, CUNY) Federica Francesconi (University of Oregon) Debra Kaplan (Yeshiva University) Stefanie B. Siegmund (Jewish Theological Seminary) Magda Teter (Wesleyan University)
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Gardner A ASTROLOGY, LUCK, AND THE ROLE OF PROVIDENCE IN MEDIEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHY Chair: James A. Diamond (University of Waterloo) The Articulation of Order: Does God Talk through the Stars? Ginger Hegedus (King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario) Maimonides on Predicting the Future: Prophecy, Astrology, Chance and the Limits of Science Yehuda Halper (Tulane University) Providence, Astrology, and Miracles in the Thought of Three Medieval Provençal Philosophers Haim Kreisel (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Gersonides on Luck, Astrology, and Hishtadlut in the Bible Alexander Green (University of Toronto)
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Beacon A
YIDDISH IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Chair: Justin Jaron Lewis (University of Manitoba) Veltlekhkeyt: Rethinking Yiddish Secular Culture in America, 1910–1940 Rachel Rojanski (Brown University) The Establishment of Ha-Me’asef: A Shift in the Attitude of the Literary Community in ’Erez. Yisra’el towards Yiddish during the Holocaust Raquel Stepak (Tel Aviv University) War of Words: Conflicting Visions for the Great Yiddish Dictionary Alec Eliezer Burko (Jewish Theological Seminary) American Hasidic Yiddish Pedagogical Materials: A Survey of Sixty Years of Children’s Publishing Jordan Kutzik (National Yiddish Book Center)
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Sunday
Pedagogy
4:15 pm – 6:15 pm